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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Communist Carpenting
- with Niels Albers8Oct 2022High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Communist Carpenting
- with Niels Albers23Jul 2022High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...
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Inspiring confusion with photographs
A/artist discussion round with Marna Slappendel
Marna Slappendel is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. Since she received her autism diagnosis five years ago, she has evolved from knowing nearly nothing about it to researching and learning about...
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Using autism to imagine alternative worlds
A/artist discussion round with research duo Liminal Vision
Liminal Vision is a creative research duo consisting of artistic maker Victor Evink and film maker Emilia Tapprest. Victor is open about his autism diagnosis, while Emilia is not on the spectrum.
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Can an Artwork be Autistic?
Using keywords to identify autistic characteristics in artworks
Repetition, extreme consistency, radical truth, cataloging, systematising, questioning, over- and understimulation. All of these words are part of a list the A/artist team brainstormed last year...
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Vita Buivid, Conny Groenewegen, Kristin Maurer
Knit for Survival!
- Emergency sweater knitting workshop against P*t*n.14أيار / مايو 2022Come join Mediamatic in a series of knitting workshops and turn down your heating by starting to knit a sweater, a hat, or some fuzzy socks. So grab your warmest clothes and let's start to reduce our...
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We grew a new project nursery: Penny for your…
Project Nursery
There is something uniquely inspiring when looking into artistic processes that are still in progress: unpolished, experimental, and open-ended. Penny for your Thoughts is our project nursery
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Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Vita Buivid, Conny Groenewegen, Kristin Maurer
Knit for Survival!
- Emergency sweater knitting workshop against P*t*n.7أيار / مايو 2022Come join Mediamatic in a series of knitting workshops and turn down your heating by starting to knit a sweater, a hat, or some fuzzy socks. So grab your warmest clothes and let's start to reduce our...
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Proposal by: Alena Grahn
Erotic Ecology
Project proposal: Our Human Bodies
This project aims to explore the erotic in our local ecology through the senses. As we are expanding our relationship with this idea, the research will be performed as ritual. In our exploration, we...
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Proposal by: Si Knight
Multisensory Listening Rituals
Project Proposal: for Reducing Stress
As you may well have experienced, life today can be very stressful. As a result of this, many people are currently in desperate need of finding ways to reduce their stress levels. Yet contemporary...
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Proposal by: Pauline Rip
Cooking Ghosts
Researching elficology
How can we reimagine the richness of our cultural relationships with plants and nature through the imaginary creatures they inhabit? Cooking Ghosts is a project based on research done by...
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Proposal by: René Nissen, Avery Franken
Disrupting Citizenship
Project proposal: Arrhythmia as the Urban Condition
The world around us may make us feel like we are required to be our most “productive” selves, and like “unproductive” behaviour is penalised. These rules can be written – a contract, for example, may...
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Proposal by: Lena Trost
(Digital) Glass Tasting
Project proposal: How glass becomes odour
My artistic research is about how glass becomes odour. Glass is an odourless material. But therefore, I claim, it can be used to tap into our own biological olfactory memory - which is the goal of...
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Proposal by: Jennifer Kumer
When My Time Comes
Project Proposal: an End-of-Life Conversation Game
How do we prepare to die? Not usually a question we want to spend a lot of time thinking about, and yet, it's incredibly important. It’s often a question not answered until it is too late. This...
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Proposal by: Margherita Falqui
Liquid Maquis
Project proposal: Connecting with places through the senses
Exploring the connection to a territory and its curative potential by drinking it, ingesting it, feeling it. I would like to explore and communicate the connection to territory by creating a liquid...
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Proposal by: Roland van Dierendonck, Maro Pebo
Chili Pepper Pleasure
Project proposal: A hedonistic experience
Half the planet is addicted to capsaicin, the working substance in chili peppers. It is described as a stimulant or even an aphrodisiac. There has been proven to be a relationship between capsaicin...
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Proposal by: Nina Anin
Wind Airwave transmission
Project Proposal: Sustainable radio show
WIND TURBINE My project mainly revolves around this windturbine I have built. The windturbine is connected (through gears) to a motor which generates power. The mini circuitboard is then connected to...
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Proposal by: Mario Mimoso
Floating Havens
Project Proposal: Regenerating city life
Floating Havens is a project aimed at regenerating life inside the urban landscape. Using Amsterdam’s canals as a way to gain land to the crowded and congested city streets, we want to dedicate these...
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Proposal by: Azucena Sánchez
Oak Tales
Project proposal: Genomic Soundscapes
Plants are our ancestors, the ones that see the real in us, the only ones who saw the world before it got inhabited, the ones that created forms, aesthetics and structure. If nature were to be...
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Proposal by: Bas Huijbers
Green Office
Project proposal: Klimaatactie in het onderwijs
Samen met leerlingen, docenten en schoolleiders, het onderwijs in Amsterdam klimaatcrisis bestendig maken. Met als basisproject: een Green Office
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Proposal by: Racha Tarazi
My Dinner
Project Proposal: Digesting emotions
My Dinner is an immersive art installation: part food-art and part theatrical set up. Thematically, it resembles a sit-down dinner party for 6-8 guests. My Dinner attempts to explore the process and...
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Proposal by: Anonymous
Neurodiversiteit en de toegankelijkheid van…
Project proposal: Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen
Met het project ‘Inclusieve tools voor kunstfondsen’ verken ik de toegankelijkheid van subsidies voor kunstenaars die zich identificeren als neurodivers. Hoe kunnen we gestandaardiseerde...
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Proposal by: Lucie Majerus
Colour-Smells of Amsterdam
Project proposal: Sustainable souvenirs
As a product designer, I am interested in how countries design nation branding and souvenirs. How can we find new ways for tourists to experience a place while giving them new sensual possibilities?
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Proposal by: Krisztina Czika
What's left to capture?
Project Proposal: Underwater journey
'What's left to capture?' is inspired by a research project I have started in Sri Lanka back in the beginning of 2020. In our world today, the natural resources we use are, sadly taken for granted...